LSU LIS7610/CSC7481 Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2009 - Section 01
Syllabus

For each session this syllabus shows the top-level topics that we plan to cover, chapters in the text and the lecture notes, links to other required readings that should be read before the indicated class, and assignments that students are required to complete before the indicated class. All homework and programming assignments are due at the beginning of class (late arrival in class will not change the time when the assignment was due). The slides link will take you to the Powerpoint slides or RTF documents for the indicated session.

Session Date Topic Readings Assignment Due Slides Activity
1
Aug 26
 Structure of IR systems
1
H1     
  
PPT||RTF
 
2
Sep 2
 Evidence from Content
2
H2, P0
H1
PPT||RTF
Project overview (0)
3
Sep 9
 Ranked retrieval
3
      P1
H2
PPT||RTF
Project overview (1)
4
Sep 16
 Interaction
4
H3, P2
P0
PPT||RTF
Project overview (2, 3)
5
Sep 23
 Evaluation
5
H4, P3
H3
PPT||RTF
Project team kickoff (.xls)
6
Sep 30
 Web search
6
  
H4
PPT||RTF
Semantic Web visioning
7
Oct 7
 Evidence from behavior
7
 
P1
PPT||RTF
Recommendation Systems
8
Oct 14
 Scanned documents
8
    
PPT||RTF
 
9
Oct 21
 Evidence from metadata
9
  
P2
PPT||RTF
 
10
Oct 28
 Clustering, Classification, Filtering
10
  
P3
PPT||RTF
System walkthroughs
(postponed to next week)
11
Nov 4
 Speech and music
11
    
PPT||RTF
Research project updates
12
Nov 11
 No Class
      Attending ASIS&T Meeting
13
Nov 18
 Cross-language Search
13
    
PPT||RTF
Interface demonstrations
14
Nov 25
 Photographs and video
(Class moved to Dec 2)
14
  
P4
PPT||RTF
 
15
Dec 2
 Project presentations    
P5 (on Dec 5)
PPT||RTF
Project reports
16
Dec 9
9-11AM
 Final Exam          

Key:
H = homework assignment (individual)
P = Project (individual or team)

Acknowledgement to Doug Oard, Revised by Yejun Wu.
Last modified: Tue Nov 24 13:06:37 CST 2009